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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Trump Blocks An Award For Jimmy Carter

It
is hard to believe how petty and evil our infantile president can get. Now
Trump is busy undermining one of the country's most beloved ex-presidents.

Argentina
was set to award President Jimmy Carter the nation's most prestigious award
till the Trump administration put a damper on it. The Buenos Aires Heraldreported the following:

The
Mauricio Macri administration reversed a decision to award former U.S. president
Jimmy Carter the Order of the Liberator General San Martín - the maximum distinction that the country can
give to a foreign personality -, under the pressure from U.S. President Donald
Trump’s administration, CNN website reported this week.

The
official tribute, which had already been approved by the foreign ministry and
was published in the Official Gazette, was canceled after receiving a specific
request by the U.S. government, which would have suggested it would be better
to delay it. Carter was to be given the award for his work in promoting human
rights during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

After
being informed of the decision, the foreign ministry had again requested that President
Macri give the award in spite of the rejection by Trump’s government since it
had been made official, according to an anonymous foreign ministry official
consulted by CNN’s David Cox. ...

The
Council that reviews potential recipients of the Order of the Liberator General
San Martin had said that Carter merited the distinction for his record in
defending human rights. It highlighted how he had demanded the last military
dictatorship for the location of thousands of forced-disappeared victims, had condemned
the human rights violations being carried then, and that he had been
instrumental in getting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to visit
the country in 1979. It is also recognized his decision to create an
Under-Secretary in charge of Human Rights at the State Department, and the
creation of the Carter Center in 1982, in which the former president continued
to involve himself in the defense of human rights and democracies throughout
Latin America.

It
is evident a petty president now leads America. It is imperative that all other
structures within our government act as a check against this aberration lest
our democracy suffers indefinitely.

Exactly what business is it of America "ass-hole
president" who gets a human rights award?